Here is a running list of relevant articles from around the web:
The Problem with Student-Loan Forgiveness
$1 Trillion Student Loan Problem Keeps Getting Worse
New York Times on Student Loans (6-12-14)
Wall Street Journal: The Problem With Student Loans
Harvard Business Review: Will you be able to pay back your student loans?
Student Loans and your ability to build Wealth
New York Times: Navigating the Thickets of Student Loan Counseling
Kids in the US don’t know much about money — and teaching them doesn’t work
Additional Web Resources:
Wake Forest School of Divinity – Financial Well Being resources
Student Loan Repayment Estimator
Books:
Here is a list of books I have available in my office – Denver Seminary Students are free to pop by and borrow them – for others these are books I have read and put their principles into practice in what we teach here.
- Debt-Free U by Zac Bissonnette
- Dave Ramsey – multiple titles
- Larry Burkett – multiple titles
- Thou Shall Prosper – Daniel Lapin
- The Student Loan Scam – Alan Collinge
- 1001 Ways to Pay for College
- The Cheapskate Next Door – Jeff Yeager
- Paying for College: A 2015 Guide to Saving Time and Money
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less – Greg McKeown
- How to Be Rich – Andy Stanley
- Living on Less & Liking it More by Maxine Hancock
- Money – God or Gift by Jamie Munson
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
- Paying for College by Mark Bilotta
- QBQ by John G. Miller
- Neither Poverty nor Riches by Craig L. Blomberg
- Several books by Craig Hill including “Five Wealth Secrets 96% of us don’t know”